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Offline grandarog

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5332 on: September 23, 2021, 10:21:42 AM »
Well done JohnWalker.


The Chapel is Grade 2 listed.


Hospital chapel. 1882-3 by James Knowles Junior for Erasmus Wilson. Early English style. Polychrome brickwork with slate roof and some stone dressings. 6 bay nave with 1 bay chancel and lower apsidal ended sanctuary and small octagonal tower with brick spire and stone finial to north west. West gable has 5-light traceried windows. 5 arched windows with double lancets with trefoil heads and quatrefoil motifs above and easternmost window with 3 trefoil headed lancets and 3 quatrefoils all divided by buttresses. Gabled south porch. Interior: The interior contains a very fine series of stained glass depicting miracles and healing plants by Clayton and Bell. Encaustic tiled floor to chancel and sanctuary and central strip to nave. Hammer beam roof and stencilled decorations to walls. Wall painting to west end. Octagonal font with marble columns. There is a Willis organ with stencilled pipes.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5331 on: September 23, 2021, 08:15:11 AM »
As far as I`m aware, the chapel is still standing and an attempt is being made to convert it into two houses.


Also that the historic `Father` Willis organ be re-located. if or when it is restored from its appalling condition.


Over to you, John W!


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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5330 on: September 22, 2021, 11:29:17 PM »
The chapel at the Sea Bathing Hospital, Margate.  A lot of the original building has been converted into des-res apartments.   I wonder if the chapel has been saved.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5329 on: September 22, 2021, 07:41:32 PM »
Ursuline Convent at Westgate?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5328 on: September 22, 2021, 02:22:22 PM »
Yes, an Institution  -  I think that you are nearly there!

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5327 on: September 22, 2021, 02:03:02 PM »
Institutional then?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5326 on: September 22, 2021, 01:57:14 PM »
A chapel, yes, but not a "family" chapel.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5325 on: September 22, 2021, 01:39:32 PM »
So is it a private family chapel then and not a church?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5324 on: September 22, 2021, 01:33:08 PM »
Thanet area.

 I don`t think that this building is, or has been, open to the public.

My only visit (when I took the photo) was arranged.


A possible health hazard, thanks to the pigeons.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5323 on: September 22, 2021, 12:13:09 PM »
Don't panic Dave Smith, the new bit is the 40volt battery operation, I have had a conventional 2stroke powered chainsaw for over 40years - not the same one... Very pleased with the results.

I use an extremely sturdy metal saw bench with a pivoting clamp and shield arrangement to which the saw is attached, becoming a sort of chop saw. Freehand chainsawing is avoided.
Splitting is no longer done with a maul (wide axe) after a bit flew up and whacked me on the head, a 5ton electro-pneumatic splitter was bought a few years ago with the winter fuel allowance. Highly recommended.
Meanwhile, back in church, rough area Diapason?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5322 on: September 22, 2021, 11:36:40 AM »
Be very wary johnfilmer, a chainsaw is NOT a toy! They slice logs- & arms!- like a knife thro' butter.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5321 on: September 22, 2021, 09:17:45 AM »
I will pass for while on this one Bryn, unless it hasn't been found by Sunday Evening.  :)

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5320 on: September 21, 2021, 08:05:15 PM »
This photo was taken nearly five years ago and the building still stands but in what state I don`t know.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5319 on: September 21, 2021, 07:40:23 PM »
Local knowledge, John!
I was in the vicinity this afternoon.  As you say, there`s very little about Wrinsted Court on the internet except one photo but I can remember seeing "Wrinsted Court" on a signpost when I was about 10 years old, and that was long time ago.


 

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #5318 on: September 21, 2021, 07:17:09 PM »
Well I am surprised at Diapasons quick, and very correct, answer.


There is so little detail on the internet.


I found it as an ancestor lived at Flint Barm Farm, a bit south from it.


Over to you Diapason.
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